In this episode, hosts Bill Derasmo and John Leonti, chair of Troutman Pepper Locke’s Energy practice, sit down with Todd Crescenzo, managing partner at Clear Creek Investments, and Jorge Diaz Schneider, CEO of ION Storage Systems. ION, a Clear Creek portfolio company, is pioneering solid-state battery technology using a breakthrough ceramic bilayer electrolyte.
Jorge shares how his background in e-mobility and energy storage shapes ION’s edge in the market, including its successful sampling of working cells for consumer electronics. The conversation also explores how AI is reshaping battery operations, and why investor backing is critical to advancing both energy security and innovation.